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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
      last edited by Alan Kilborn

      Regarding:

      “You probably don’t have any margin turned on”

      @Ekopalypse said :

      Curious, how would one do that? I was under the impression that the
      blank margin is always active.

      What is this “blank margin”??

      So without any plugins that might create additional margins, I think N++ has 3 possible margins:

      1. Line number
      2. Bookmark
      3. Fold (for certain Language types, e.g. Python)

      If you have them all turned off, like this (see the red dots):

      6b059aba-e086-47a7-a7dd-21c4a096628a-image.png

      Then you have a “don’t have any margin turned on” situation – or maybe I’m misunderstanding something?

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse
        last edited by

        @Alan-Kilborn

        https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETMARGINLEFT

        uses the blank margin to insert space between the border and the text.
        Hence the solution provided by @Nick-Brown should work and this
        margin is not, as far as I know, related to the other “visible” margins.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          @Ekopalypse

          Ah, it is somewhat confusing because it isn’t a real “margin” like the others I called out.
          So, apparently it was just that the OP had some sort of problem getting the Pythonscript solution to work.
          Maybe should try a NppExec solution?

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            Yes, took me some time to figure out that this isn’t one of the other
            margins while I was testing it some time ago. :-)

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            • Evgeny MorozovE
              Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

              @Alan-Kilborn said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

              You probably don’t have any margin turned on

              Curious, how would one do that? I was under the impression that the
              blank margin is always active.

              @Evgeny-Morozov
              Npp knows two editor objects named editor1 and editor2.
              editor points to one of those and is the current one used.
              Change your code to

              editor1.set...
              editor2.set...
              

              to be sure that both editor objects are affected. In addition I would recommend not to use the standard startup.py file but to create a user startup.py. Simply by using the PythonScript menu and choose New script and name it startup.py.

              Can you check if you see an error in the PythonScript console?
              Plugins->PythonScript->Show Console

              It does not work too. :((((

              I created user scrypt startup.py.

              Here is contents:

              87c7027b-625b-4bff-afd7-5688f28cbebf-image.png

              I restarted Notepad++
              Run scrupt using menu:

              e7f8f92c-abd3-411d-9c55-86e05f61fd9a-image.png

              But there is still no space:
              ff216fea-7565-46ee-b19d-65eaa29e0e25-image.png

              Console is empty
              247de44e-27a3-448d-a316-c42f07abe2c7-image.png

              I enter commands manually:
              6bc86517-d5eb-4b5d-b7f3-129e67a4dae1-image.png

              But nothing happens

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov
                last edited by

                @Evgeny-Morozov

                Can you post your debug-info, which is available from ? menu?

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                • Evgeny MorozovE
                  Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                  @Evgeny-Morozov

                  Can you post your debug-info, which is available from ? menu?

                  Can you please explain there to find that debug info?

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov
                    last edited by

                    @Evgeny-Morozov

                    b3d5c721-8f4d-4b46-b790-d37521c520b9-image.png

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                    • Evgeny MorozovE
                      Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                      @Evgeny-Morozov

                      b3d5c721-8f4d-4b46-b790-d37521c520b9-image.png

                      Surprisingly it works!
                      Maybe I have not closed one txt file opened in N++

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @Evgeny-Morozov

                        Great that it works - still confused that calling the two methods from the console didn’t work.

                        So the only other thing is that your user startup.py should only contain the two setMarginLeft… lines. The other stuff will get initialized from the standard startup.py.

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                        • Makwana PrahladM
                          Makwana Prahlad Banned
                          last edited by

                          Hello,@Evgeny-Morozov

                          Please follow this steps,To How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?

                          Step 1:- Open your file in Notepad++
                          Step 2:- Press Ctrl+H to open the Replace window.
                          Step 3:- Change the “Search Mode” to Regular expression.
                          Step 4:- In the “Find what” box, type (\n|^)
                          Step 5:- In the “Replace with” box, type \1
                          Step 6:- Then click “Replace All”

                          Note: If you want tabs instead of spaces, a tab character can be typed with Alt+09

                          I hope this information will be useful to you.
                          Thank you.

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Makwana Prahlad
                            last edited by

                            Future readers: Please disregard the posting here (and anywhere else on this site) by @Makwana-Prahlad . It is talking about something irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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                            • EkopalypseE
                              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by

                              @Alan-Kilborn

                              If we consider how often the answers are far off, I start to think that this is a Bot/AI someone is testing against the forum.

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                                last edited by

                                @Ekopalypse

                                Yea, I think I suggested that same thing in a prior time I posted something like my last post in this thread. What I don’t understand is why we haven’t banned this “thing”.

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                                • NikolaN
                                  Nikola
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi all!
                                  My first post on this forum, so sorry for my noob question. I really don’t get it if this question is solved? I wanted to try the trick with Pyton Script plugin but I would need step by step instructions since I’m no programmer.

                                  So basically I need exactly what the OP asked, ability to change how close is the text from the left border. I would be satisfied with space that I get when choosing Settings>Preferences>Margine/Border/Edge>Folder Margin Style if the border was only white not gray (dotted pattern).

                                  Not directly related but for the record if chose any other option for Folder Margin Style (Arrow, Circle tree, Box tree) the margin looks the same as in the picture bellow. Also border radius (which is not what I need) doesn’t work, if I change the number the radius stays the same, “No edge” option works fine. I’m on Windows10.

                                  Capture.JPG

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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones @Nikola
                                    last edited by PeterJones

                                    @Nikola ,

                                    if the border was only white not gray

                                    Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Fold Margin, change the Background Colour to white (or whatever non-gray color you prefer)

                                    I wanted to try the trick with Pyton Script plugin but I would need step by step instructions

                                    1. Plugins > Plugins Admin: in the Available tab, enable ☑ Python Script and Install. Notepad++ should restart after installing the plugin
                                    2. Plugins > Python Script > Scripts: in the resulting sub-menu, Ctrl+Click on the Startup (user)
                                      (if you normal-click, it will run the script; ctrl+click will edit the script – you want to edit it)
                                    3. It will open a file in Notepad++. At the end of that file, add the lines
                                      editor1.setMarginLeft(30)
                                      editor2.setMarginLeft(30)
                                      
                                      and save that file.
                                    4. Plugins > Python Script > Configuration…. Change the Initialisation: drop-down to ATSTARTUP, and click OK
                                    5. Exit and restart Notepad++.

                                    This should set wider margins. If it’s too wide or too narrow, use a smaller or larger number than 30 (bigger number means wider)

                                    If it doesn’t work for you, show us your ? > Debug Info, and give us screenshots showing your edited startup.py open in Notepad++, and maybe with the Plugins > Python Script > Show Console showing, so we can see if there are any unexpected error messages

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